Mention Paris, France and most anyone goes "Oh yes please..." well we few mates have the same response and so this wander has arisen from the dreams and inspirations to be found in the north of France...

Paris- museums, shops, markets, the city and it's very soul is in most everyone's imagination to start with...add to that inspiration from books like Tracy Chevalier's "The Lady and the Unicorn"; a story she concocted around a superb tapestry housed in the Cluny Museum whose provenance is rather sketchy and we were off to concot our own story.

The Mirrabelle Trail is a story trail...a textile inspired story trail...one we can create as we travel along.

Dreamed up by Fiona Wright, Praveen Nayak and Dijanne Cevaal we want to share places and views we love, a chance to wander through a magical landscape, experience wonderful food and refreshments and offer an opportunity to turn this inspiration into a textile piece.

We are planning to follow a trail of Medieval tapestries and architecture for inspiration- think The Lady and the Unicorn Tapestries, Bayeux Tapestry, Chartres Cathedral as well as soak up contemporary textiles at the Carrefore European Patchwork Expo for a few days.

As a part this tour idea Dijanne Cevaal will offer an online course to help turn the gathered inspiration into a story cloth/ book based on the many things we experience, to be taken at leisure once you are home again.